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Джером К. Джером. The Angel and the Author, and Others
The Angel and the Author, and Others
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
The Author tells of his Good Deeds
The Angel appears to have made a slight Mistake
The Author is troubled concerning his Investments
And questions a Man of Thought
CHAPTER II
Philosophy and the Dæmon
When the Dæmon will not work
CHAPTER III
Literature and the Middle Classes
May a man of intelligence live, say, in Surbiton?
CHAPTER IV
Man and his Master
Why the Man in Uniform has, generally, sad Eyes
The Traveller’s one Friend
The disadvantage of being an unknown Person
CHAPTER V
If only we had not lost our Tails!
And little Boys would always tell the Truth!
And everyone obtained his just Deserts!
And only people would do Parlour Tricks who do them well!
And all the World had Sense!
CHAPTER VI
Fire and the Foreigner
My British Stupidity
I am considered Cold and Mad
Sometimes I wish I were an American Woman
CHAPTER VII
Too much Postcard
The Postcard as a Family Curse
The Artist’s Dream
Why not the Eternal Male for a change?
How Women are ruined by Art
Difficulty of living up to the Poster
CHAPTER VIII
The Lady and the Problem
The Stage Hero who, for once, had Justice done to him
She has a way of mislaying her Husband
What is a Lady to do with a Husband when she has finished with him?
Could she—herself—have been to blame?
CHAPTER IX
Civilization and the Unemployed
Early instances of “Dumping.”
Cricket, as viewed from the fixed Stars
The Heir of all Ages. His Inheritance
Is it “Playing the Game?”
CHAPTER X
Patience and the Waiter
Waiterkind in the making
His Little Mistakes
How to insult him
CHAPTER XI
The everlasting Newness of Woman
Doctor says she is not to be bothered
That “Higher Life.”
Is there anything left for her to learn?
When they have tried it the other way round
A brutal suggestion
CHAPTER XII
Why I hate Heroes
Because it always seems to be his Day
Because he always “gets there,” without any trouble
Because he’s so damned clever
And, finally, because I don’t believe he’s true
CHAPTER XIII
How to be Healthy and Unhappy
The unsympathetic Umbrella
A Martyr to Health
He was never pig-headed
Only just in time
How to avoid Everything
The one Cure-All
CHAPTER XIV
Europe and the bright American Girl
She has the Art of Listening
The Republican Idea in practice
What the Soldier dared not do
Her path of Usefulness
CHAPTER XV
Music and the Savage
Recreation for the Higher clergy
Why are we so young?
Where Brotherly (and Sisterly) Love reigns supreme
The one sure Joke
How Anarchists are made
CHAPTER XVI
The Ghost and the Blind Children
Why not, occasionally, a cheerful Ghost
Where are the dead Humorists?
The Spirit does not shine as a Conversationalist
She is now a Believer
How does he do it?
Blind Children playing in a World of Darkness
CHAPTER XVII
Parents and their Teachers
Their first attempt
The Parent can do no right
His foolish talk
The Child of Fiction
The misunderstood Father
CHAPTER XVIII
Marriage and the Joke of it
Love and the Satyr
What the Gipsy did not mention
A few rules for Married Happiness
The real Darby and Joan
Many ways of Love
Which is it?
CHAPTER XIX
Man and his Tailor
The difficulty of being a Gentleman
How we might, all of us, be Gentlemen
Things a Gentleman should never do
How one may know the perfect Gentleman
Why not an Exhibition of Gentlemen?
CHAPTER XX
Woman and her behaviour
Woman’s God
Those unsexed Creatures
References given—and required
The ideal World
A Lover’s View
No time to think of Husbands
The Wife of the Future
